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James B. Conant

1893 - 1978

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James Bryant Conant (March 26, 1893 – February 11, 1978) was an American chemist, a transformative President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany. Conant obtained a Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard in 1916. During World War I, he served in the U.S. Army, where he worked on the development of poison gases, especially Lewisite. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James B. Conant has received more than 314,038 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). James B. Conant is the 448th most popular chemist (up from 467th in 2019), the 5,076th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,289th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular American Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, James B. Conant ranks 448 out of 602. Before him are Joseph Bienaimé Caventou, Gaston Tissandier, Henri Braconnot, Antoine Bussy, Myrtle Bachelder, and Jacques-Louis Soret. After him are Donella Meadows, Johann Schweigger, Carl Theodore Liebermann, Felix Hoppe-Seyler, Carl Graebe, and Benjamin List.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, James B. Conant ranks 171. Before him are Harald Cramér, Fay Bainter, Costante Girardengo, Elisaveta Bagriana, Kathryn Adams, and Ramón Encinas. After him are Eugen Schüfftan, Blind Lemon Jefferson, László Hudec, Aleksandr Gauk, Oskari Friman, and Willy Böckl. Among people deceased in 1978, James B. Conant ranks 146. Before him are Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Costante Girardengo, Lennie Tristano, Mark Robson, Joseph Colombo, and Mária Mednyánszky. After him are Nico Diederichs, Luo Ruiqing, Theo Lingen, Kathleen Kenyon, Zenta Mauriņa, and Gordon Matta-Clark.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James B. Conant ranks 5,076 out of 20,380. Before him are Henry Darrow (1933), Carrie Nation (1846), Richmond K. Turner (1885), Robert E. Sherwood (1896), Vance D. Brand (1931), and Tim Blake Nelson (1964). After him are Kevin Schwantz (1964), Stephen Breyer (1938), Edgar Leonard (1881), J. E. B. Stuart (1833), Hunter Biden (1970), and Kenneth Bainbridge (1904).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, James B. Conant ranks 82. Before him are Jennifer Doudna (1964), John Tukey (1915), Carolyn R. Bertozzi (1966), Eric Betzig (1960), Roy J. Plunkett (1910), and Myrtle Bachelder (1908). After him are Donella Meadows (1941), James Crafts (1839), Maclyn McCarty (1911), Isabella Karle (1921), Michael Behe (1952), and Edward Goodrich Acheson (1856).

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